Re-attaching laptop keyboard keys

Jumpstart

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I have a laptop that's only a couple of years old. But about three months ago, one of the keys got stuck, wouldn't move, so I removed it myself.

I was still able to use the key because the centre plastic spike was sticking up.

Well, I thought the actual key was broken, but nonetheless I put away the two plastic bits and the key, and thought one day 'I'll glue it back together.' :p

Then three days ago, my other key stuck. :mad: So I took that off. And now I had two keys missing, so what the heck I thought I'd make an attempt to attach both keys and not really hoping for any success.

Luckily I still had all the bits. So I watched this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnJi4Izd5ts

I was gonna give up because these keys can be very tricky to put back together, then WHAM I got one fitted back in. :D Then the other one. :D

So now my keyboard is all perfect again.

So I say now, never throw any of your bits away. ;)
 
Nice one - laptop keys can be an absolute swine to get back on - I know from having to do numerous fixes over the years at the school where I work.

Sometimes they will snap on nice as anything, and others on the same keyboard wont go on no matter what you do to them and when you are sure you are doing the same as you did for the successful fix!

As Im well known for never throwing anything away that might come in remotely useful Ive now got a filing cabinet full of life expired & dead laptops....
 
I also wanna say when you look at these plastic bits they look very fragile but they're not really. They're quite strong.
 
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